Microsoft's Zune has a New Year Macke.

Quite embarrassing for Microsoft: The hotel's own iPod competitor, Zune has a problem with the turn of the year. On New Year's Eve, the players rushed en masse - and could not wake up again. Microsoft's advice: Wait. The Web community laughs are broken.
  It is the first major international Lacher tech junkies in 2009: Microsoft's Zune MP3 player has, well, no millennium bug, but something similar. The models in the series presented Zune 30 to thousands of New Year's Eve the service, the screen froze, and the device could not be more out of his trance-year raise.
The reason, according to Microsoft: A problem with the software and the end of the leap year. The official Zune forums about sources before usually short, but all the more difficult wütenderen submissions disappointed Zune owners, while Apple fans everywhere Hohn and Häme Kübel as pourout. In line with the Y2K bug, which then on 1 January 2000 but not the computers of the World lame submitted, the network community, the Zune-long problem Z2K baptized.
But do not worry: "The problem should be taken in the next 24 hours to solve," said a message to the irritated Zune owners on the official Web site. The internal clock of the devices should be "tomorrow at noon GMT automatically reset." Previously, however, must be the battery draining of the Zune, which, as the step-by-step guide to automatically happen, "As the player is frozen, the battery is empty" - and "in a few hours." Then you might be the player with his new computer to play music purchased licenses (DRM) to renew it. It is almost a somewhere far away Steve Jobs quietly giggle to hear.
The rivalry between Apple fans and the (relatively few) steadfast Zune owners is legendary. Only recently broke it again train, when a local reporter felt Barack Obama with a Zune in the gym erspäht to have - the waves hit so high that a spokesman of the most powerful man soon the world was even forced to clarify: "The President-designate has an iPod. "
"Apocalypse", "plague", "mass deaths"
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Whether Zune owners are happy that the battery of their players a few hours stops when no music comes out, be doubted whether the fact that the problem in this way by itself dissolves, smooths the waves, too. The tech community has something in any case, what they are on 1 January fun. As Michael Arrington at Techcrunch "formulated:" A massive, synchronized failure of the operating system in a Microsoft product is such a bizarre story, crazier than fiction, simply too good to them at a news omit poor days. "
Everywhere is now Häme poured on Microsoft. "Ars Technica" speaks of the "Zune-Apocalypse", "Gizmodo chooses simply introduced the Web-Häme word" Fail "and" The Register "from the title of London, as still a little evil than the others:" With Microsoft Pest threatens extinction of the 30-GB Zunes - Worldwide Media Player death. " Worldwide true does not really - in Germany, for instance, you can not even buy Zune.
One U.S. Zune owners commented in the "Tech Blog" of "Los Angeles Times:" I am a bit angry, but I can understand the problem, "yet," but I would have to be that the computer wizards of Microsoft, after the whole Y2K thing had to be prepared. "
The question-and-answer page at Zune.net ends with this advice: "Question: Will the firmware before the next leap year (2012) update? - Yes."